Top five films: best of the big screen

Few movies are more seductive than Bernardo Bertolucci's perversely lavish 1970 study of the twisted sexuality of fascism, set in the 1930s and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed Italian official caught up in an assassination plot. Screens as part of the Italian Film Festival. Restored version, digitally projected. Astor, Sun 13 Oct, 1.30pm.

John Boorman’s memorable 1972 adaptation of a novel by James Dickey stars Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight as city slickers stranded in backwoods Georgia where their masculinity is challenged in a more than usually visceral sense. Presented by Cinemaniacs film society, with post-screening discussion led by film historian Emma Westwood. Digitally projected. Backlot Studios, Sat 12 Oct, 7pm.

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GEMINI MAN (117 minutes) M

Ang Lee (Life of Pi) takes his experimental approach to the next level with this strange action-thriller, shot in an unconventional digital format and starring Will Smith in two roles: a jaded hitman and his much younger rival. In some ways it feels like a children’s movie, but an uncommonly thoughtful, uncanny one. General.

HUSTLERS (110 minutes) MA

For a fun movie about how men and women mutually exploit each other, you can’t do better at present than writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s dramatisation of a true story about how a group of ex-strippers in New York teamed up to drug men and drain their bank accounts. Jennifer Lopez has her best role in years as the ringleader. General.

RABID (102 minutes) Unrated 18+

Canadian-born sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska are among the most notable talents in modern horror cinema. This remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 shocker is an extension of the themes of their 2012 American Mary, with a heroine (Laura Vandervoort) who runs amok in the wake of stem cell treatment gone wrong. Screens as part of Monster Fest, with short One Last Meal. Cinema Nova, Sat 12 Oct, 5.15pm.